If you choose the right strategy and the wrong tactics, you will eventually have problems.

Now the problem has arisen, but fortunately, the timing is good, and it appeared very early.

There is still a chance to save everything.

And even more fortunate is that the two heavyweights in Confucianism bravely stood up.

Yu Zhining's words can be regarded as admitting some of the previous failures of Confucianism, and similarly, it also gave Li Yuanji a step.

Everyone knows very well that the emperor is a god, and the emperor will not make mistakes, and even if he really makes a mistake, someone must stand up and bear the blame.

And before that, Li Yuanji had already stood up and carried a black pot for the common people in the world.

As a god-like existence, Li Yuanji can put down his body to make an edict against himself, so what else is Confucianism arrogant?

Are they really more important than the emperor?

Even if there is no Confucianism in this world, as long as the emperor finds a problem, he will eventually solve the problem, even if they don't need Confucianism to help, they can solve it.

The fundamental reason for this problem is that the emperor's attitude led to the complete abandonment of Confucianism by the officials below.

Once the emperor recognized the problem, he could order the officials below to pay due attention to this aspect.

For the emperor, there is no problem with talents, and all the officials of the Tang Dynasty have some experience in this regard, which is also the merit of Confucianism over the years.

Even if some officials were not trained by Confucianism, for so many years, in this big dye vat, they have also been nurtured with some Confucian atmosphere.

The emperor only needs one sentence to completely untie the shackles on the officials, and in a few years, this problem will naturally be solved.

But this is not the case for Confucianism, and it is precisely because this problem will be solved in the end with or without them that they will feel a sense of urgency and oppression.

After missing this opportunity, will they have such a good opportunity in the future?

If you want to restore Confucianism to the prosperity of the past, it is impossible now, and the only way out for Confucianism is to correct its own posture, put itself in the same position as other hundred schools, and give full play to their talents in their respective fields, so as to once again form a grand occasion of a hundred schools of thought.

"Who is not a saint or a sage? The fault of Confucianism lies in the failure to correct one's position at the right time and adjust one's mentality, but this does not completely deny the contribution of Confucianism to the nation. Li Yuanji nodded.

People gave me steps, and I couldn't help but go down, and I was aware of the problem.

Although it can be solved, the problem is that I prefer professional things to be done by professional people.

Confucianism is obviously professional in this area, and it has taken hundreds of years for them to practice this hand perfectly, and if Confucianism devotes all its mind to this, it will inevitably get twice the result with half the effort.

Don't forget, the experience summed up by the ancestors of China, but ideological rule is always higher than other means of rule.

And to rule by force alone, Qin? Yuan? In the Qing Dynasty, this lesson was summed up, and they also introduced Confucianism, but made some changes.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty was the most tragic, they died of Confucianism, but this was caused by many reasons, and one party cannot be blamed alone.

"First of all, what needs to be changed is the mind, and the grass people feel that it ......, "Let's do it, Yu Zhining said a lot about the next arrangements."

It can be seen that Yu Zhining has worked hard in this matter.

Thought is the most difficult thing in the world to control, but Confucianism plays it very well.

This fully explains one reason, the Confucian mind is very flexible.

Yes, it's flexible, but being flexible doesn't mean it's something that can be used, or rather, vested interests that don't allow them to do it.

For thousands of years, the creed of the feudal empire for governing the people was the policy of fooling the people.

Although this statement was only put forward in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, in fact, this policy has been implemented throughout history.

Because all the elite classes belong to vested interest groups, before becoming officials, everyone wants to break this monopoly system, but after becoming officials, everyone is maintaining this monopoly system.

The Qing Dynasty fell, the Republic of China rose, and the people's wisdom was opened, but most of the time, they still used the policy of ignoring the people.

The Republic of China has fallen, and New China has risen, but in the previous decades, wasn't this policy also used? With the improvement of the people's cultural level and the evolution of their thinking ability, the old policy of ignoring the people is no longer suitable, so a new method has been proposed.

Of course, no one can find fault with this method, because the people must be patriotic, at least, not go to a bad country.

Yu Zhining's idea is no problem on the whole.

It can be seen that he has recognized the problem and is determined to change, take root at the grassroots level, and carry out ideological work in depth, and at the top level, they no longer think of using Confucian concepts to govern the country.

This is very good, very good, but the problem is that the method given by Yu Zhining is still a policy of fooling the people.

"This method can be used for the time being, but in the future, the wisdom of the people will be opened, and if Confucianism does not seek to forge ahead, it will inevitably be eliminated again." Li Yuanji shook his head slightly and continued: "I don't want to lose the culture of the nation, but I can't stick to the old and not seek the new. Just like farming, Yuan let the plow come out, and the old straight plough will inevitably be eliminated. ”

Yu Zhining and Kong Yingda fell into deep thought.

Li Yuanji gave them a big problem.

The Confucian method of controlling the minds of ordinary people is very effective, but let them control the minds of some literati, unless these literati have been educated by them in the first place and have been brainwashed by them.

Take the current situation as an example, if the students in the ten four major academies are given to Confucianism for brainwashing, it would be good if they could succeed in one.

Scholars who have received more advanced knowledge have further sublimated their thinking, and they have long had their own goals and opinions, unless they encounter major changes, otherwise the probability of success can hardly be mentioned.

But now, Li Yuanji has made this request to them, what should they do?

Why is Confucianism so powerful? Because the family is dominant, because the people in the world have received their education and their ideas, the upper-level officials do not need them to brainwash at all, and naturally they will stand on their side on some issues of principle.

But now, the environment is different, and the requirements for them are even higher.

"The grass people will find a way to change this, no matter how difficult it is!" Yu Zhining gritted his teeth and agreed.

There is naturally difficulty, but if you don't do it, don't say yes, then now they will be eliminated.

The pressure naturally returned to them again, and this also made Yu Zhining feel even more that the emperor was deliberately burdening them again, so that they could devote more energy to these aspects, and they were unable to take care of other things.

On another level, this is beneficial to Confucianism, at least their living environment will be better.

The downside is that their living space will be compressed.

But, either way, at least it won't end up worse than it is now, will it?

"It's good to have this motivation, this matter is not a matter of one or two years, maybe ten years, maybe twenty years, maybe it will take longer, solve the present, I will give you time." Li Yuanji nodded.

At this time, he also had some thoughts in his heart.

Of course, this is based on the system of later generations, such as setting up political commissars and instructors in the army to be responsible for the ideological work of officers and soldiers.

This position seems to be chicken, and it does not have the real power to lead troops, but if a unit is built into an army with strong ideas, it is still very scary.

The greatest advantage of the political commissar is that he can grasp the ideological problems of the whole army at any time, and when he loses a battle, he will help the officers and men extricate themselves from the defeat as quickly as possible, and when he wins a battle, he will immediately cool them down and let them maintain a normal mind, so as to avoid the situation in which the arrogant army is bound to lose, and in ordinary times, he will always warn them and temper themselves.

For a humane system, the role of the political commissar cannot exist, because to a certain extent, he requires the soldiers to give up their lives to complete the task, which in their case, has to go to court.

But this system in the Tang Dynasty, in China is not applicable, the two systems are different, humane, everywhere to speak, but in the face of the overall situation, everyone must obey.

Huaxia's view on this matter is very simple and principled, not to make unnecessary sacrifices, and just one sentence explains this problem.

If we don't talk about sacrifice, is it like France? Look at it and can't beat it, good guys, throw away the weapon, dress yourself up cleanly, and then line up and walk out, surrender decently?

However, this matter is still equivalent to Zhining and they will discuss it after they have made achievements, and it is too early to say this.

"Your Majesty, the grass people hope that when necessary, they can change the academy's curriculum on Confucianism, the mean is actually not suitable!" Yu Zhining tentatively mentioned.

The meanness is good, but if it is placed in this place, it will only be bad, and it will only be detrimental to the development of their work, and if they do not change the moderation, their work will not be completed.

In Confucian scholarship, the mean is not accessible to ordinary students.

Because once the mean is learned thoroughly, the student will become an extremely difficult person to control, to put it bluntly, learning the mean thoroughly, it means that he has developed a skill.

Even if you want to learn in advance, you still select some of them and let them learn, instead of sending you a book directly and learning it casually.

"I'll consider it if necessary." Li Yuanji nodded, did not refuse, did not agree, and continued: "I have ordered you to be the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, specializing in this matter, Master Confucius ......"